Guide for Reuse, Repair, Recycling, and Safe Disposal

for Alameda County, Contra Costa County, and the City of Palo Alto

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Plastic Film & Wrap

Plastic film is soft plastic that does not hold its shape when squished or crumpled in your hands. Plastic film may be multi-colored and is often used to wrap packages.

Plastic Bag & Film Recycling Drop-off Location Finder

Some grocery stores still offer plastic film recycling drop-off bins for clean, dry plastic bags, but in many cases, the material is too contaminated to be processed and thus landfilled. When you can, try to avoid the packaging in the first place by shopping locally or buying secondhand.

Vendors

Vendor	Address	City	Destination	Disposal Method	Notes
Safeway	2020 Market St.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
Cole Hardware	345 9th St	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film inside plastic bag before drop-off. Basketball-size amount per visit.
Safeway	2300 16th St	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
Cole Hardware, Vallejo St.	627 Vallejo St	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film inside plastic bag before drop-off. Basketball-size amount per visit.
Materials Reuse	2650 Nicol Ave	Oakland	Recycle	Pick-up for a Fee
Safeway	2350 Noriega St.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
PlasticsMarkets.org - Plastics Recycling Directory	PO Box 1327	Sonoma	Recycle	Pick-up for a Fee, Buyback Mail-in	Connecting recycled plastics buyers & suppliers. This site's purpose is to connect suppliers and buyers of all types of scrap plastic (from bales to post consumer resin). It's supported by the plastics industry and intended for use by the recycling industry in North America.
National Recycling Corp. (Oakland)	1312 Kirkham St.	Oakland	Recycle	Buyback Drop-off
Safeway	298 King St.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
TerraCycle	121 New York Ave	Trenton	Recycle	Pick-up for a Fee
AHG Group	1968 Alpine Way	Hayward	Recycle	Drop-off for a Fee, Pick-up for a Fee	Ag Film clean and dirty; Film: HDPE, LLDPE, Other, PP; sheeting - acrylic, HDPE
Super Link Plastic, Inc.	888 92nd Ave	Oakland	Recycle	Drop-off for a Fee, Pick-up for a Fee	Must be clean. Free pick up available for quantities over 500 lbs.
Safeway	3350 Mission St.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
The Sutta Co. (East Bay Recycling)	1221 3rd St.	Oakland	Recycle	Drop-off for a Fee, Pick-up for a Fee	Large/business quantity only
Safeway	350 Bay St.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
Mountain View Recycling Center	935 Terra Bella Ave	Mountain View	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Only accepted from Mountain View residents.

Curbside Service

	Recycling	Garbage	Note
Alameda		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Albany		###
Berkeley		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Castro Valley Sanitary District	When collected as bag-of-bags for Recycling Cart/Bin or for grocery store drop-off, must be clean and dry. Loose bags jam recycling equipment. Dirty, wet plastic bags belongs in the trash. ###
Dublin		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Emeryville		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Fremont		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Hayward		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Hayward (Oro Loma - L2)		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Livermore		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Newark		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Oakland		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Piedmont	Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. Clean, dry flim/flimsy/soft plastics in a plastic bag-of-bags accepted and can be droped at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Pleasanton		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
San Leandro		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
San Leandro (Oro Loma - L3)		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
San Lorenzo (Oro Loma)		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Unincorporated Oro Loma (L1)		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Union City		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###

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